Programs not starting for users

[CornishPasty]

Hi all,

I have just ditched my Windows ME, formatted the hard drive and installed Windows 2000 Professional on an NTFS partition. I have installed my programs using the administrator account, and created five user accounts for myself and my kids.

The problem is that while all the programs work OK in the administrator account, a lot of them don't work in the user accounts. A few examples are GetRight, Outpost Firewall and Directory Opus. It's a bit of a worry when your firewall doesn't start up for all users - consequently everyone has to use the computer on the administrator account.

I have tried putting shortcuts for the non working programs in the start-up folder in Documents and Settings / All Users but that hasn't worked. I will try putting shortcuts in all the individual start-up folders of all the users, but I don't think that will work either.

I thought programs installed using the administrator account were available to everyone, but it doesn't seem to be so at the monent.

Can anyone offer solution, please?

Spike

 

[mattjurado]

Those programs probably need administrative rights. You can try adding them to the power users group, but you'll likely have to add them to the administrators group. If you add them, and problem goes away, then that's it.

Matt J.

 

[bcastner]

I do not know all of the software you listed, but the ones I do know are licensed per user.

When installed as the Administrator (or equivalent) user the software is installed in that user profile, not the all user profile.

This is a deliberate choice of the installer, and the software maker. You may need to ask them how to make the software available to all users.

See if Matt's suggestion to add the users to the Power Group succeeds.

Otherwise the software is making the deliberate point that it is per user, and not per machine, as a licensed application.